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Virginia Living is a glossy bimonthly regional lifestyle magazine with a focus on all things Virginia. Founded in 2002, it is the only statewide lifestyle magazine in Virginia. [1] The magazine features articles on topics such as food and drink, home and garden, arts and culture, travel, weddings, events, and Virginia-related history. [2]
The first incarnation of what is now the Virginia Living Museum was the Junior Nature Museum and Planetarium, opened in 1966 under Virginia Governor Mills E. Godwin, Jr. and cofounded by the Junior League of Hampton Roads and the Warwick Rotary Club. In 1976, the facility was expanded and a new focus on physical and applied sciences was added ...
Pocahontas by Simon de Passe. Pocahontas (1595–1617), a Native American, was the daughter of Chief Powhatan, founder of the Powhatan Confederacy.According to Mattaponi and Patawomeck tradition, Pocahontas was previously married to a Patawomeck weroance, Kocoum, who was murdered by Englishmen when Samuel Argall abducted her on April 13, 1613. [5]
Life in the early 2000s seemed picture-perfect for Eric and Sylvia Hawkins, a Virginia couple who were living the “American dream.”Each owned their own business, drove nice cars and together ...
Twin Oaks Community is an ecovillage [2] and intentional community of about one hundred people [3] living on 450 acres (1.8 km 2) in Louisa County, Virginia. [4] [5] It is a member of the Federation of Egalitarian Communities. [6] Founded in 1967, [7] it is one of the longest-enduring and largest secular intentional communities in North America ...
Northern Virginia, locally referred to as NOVA or NoVA, comprises several counties and independent cities in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. The region radiates westward and southward from Washington, D.C., the nation's capital, and has a population of 3,257,133 people as of 2023 U.S. Census Bureau estimates, representing over a third of the state's total population.
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This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Virginia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, other historic registers, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.